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Ten Years of Innovating with our Customers

Chainalysis celebrates its 10th birthday this spring, and we’re reflecting on how far we’ve come with our customers and how…

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2023 Cryptocurrency Gains by Country

2023 was a year of recovery for cryptocurrency markets, with asset prices and market sentiment improving over the course of…

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KPMG in Canada and Chainalysis team up to help organizations combat illicit crypto transactions

With the ongoing threat of crypto fraud and criminals growing more sophisticated every day, organizations need ever-powerful solutions to help…

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Correcting the Record: Inaccurate Methodologies for Estimating Cryptocurrency’s Role in Terrorism Financing

In recent days following the horrific terrorist attack by Hamas in Israel, we have received many questions about how terrorist…

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Chainalysis in Action: How Law Enforcement Tracked Millions’ Worth of Illicit Bitcoin in the Harmon Brothers Cases

Within the span of a few years, two brothers from Ohio were imprisoned for cryptocurrency-related crimes. The first, Larry Dean…

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Crypto and the Opioid Crisis: What Blockchain Analysis Reveals About Global Fentanyl Sales [UPDATED 3/7/24]

Executive summary Here’s a brief summary of the key findings and takeaways from the research presented in this report:  Opioids…

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How We Built Chainalysis’ Robust Knowledge Graph for Solana Transactions

The Solana blockchain has several uniquely sophisticated features, including an account structure with system, token, and stake accounts, the ability…

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How to Evaluate Blockchain Analysis Tools

Successfully operating a crypto business requires tools that help your organization monitor transactions, identify potentially suspicious activity, and address it…

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Latin America’s Key Crypto Adoption Drivers: Storing Value, Sending Remittances, and Seeking Alpha

Latin America is the seventh largest cryptocurrency market in our index this year, with citizens of Latin America countries receiving…

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Eastern Europe’s Crypto Market Active, With Spikes in Last Year Driven by Russia-Ukraine War

Eastern Europe is the fifth-largest cryptocurrency market we study, with $630.9 billion in value received on-chain between July 2021 and…

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Middle East & North Africa’s Crypto Markets Grow More Than Any Other Region in 2022

Middle East & North Africa (MENA) may be one of the smaller crypto markets in the 2022 Global Crypto Adoption…

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How Cryptocurrency Meets Residents’ Economic Needs in Sub-Saharan Africa

Sub-saharan Africa accounts for the least cryptocurrency transaction volume of any region we study, with $100.6 billion in on-chain volume…

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Crypto Adoption Steadies in South Asia, Soars in the Southeast

Central & Southern Asia and Oceania (CSAO) is the third largest region in our global crypto adoption index this year, with citizens of CSAO countries receiving $932 billion in cryptocurrency. It's also home to seven of the top twenty countries by rank. In this Geography of Cryptocurrency Report preview, we explain why.

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The 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index: Emerging Markets Lead in Grassroots Adoption, China Remains Active Despite Ban, and Crypto Fundamentals Appear Healthy

We’re excited to share with you Chainalysis’ 2022 Global Crypto Adoption Index. For the third consecutive year, we ranked all…

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$2 Million and Counting: How Dozens of Pro-Russian Groups Are Using Cryptocurrency Donations to Fund the War in Ukraine

Pro-Russian social media accounts have collected millions of dollars in crypto donations since the start of the war in Ukraine. Here's how.